[dirtstiff]

You are dead right Ivan, we don't need more troops, we need new ROE. I agree with the DimRats that sending more troops is just sending more targets under current policies.

We need to have everyone in Iraq understand if you mess with us you are dead. That is the only way you win a war. If fire comes from a house, poof, the house disappears, from a mosque, boom, no more minarets (added benefit, the loudspeakers are gone.) For this we do not need more troops and/or strategic bombing, the Arty, choopers and A-10's in theatre are plenty.

[MadIvan]

If I were President, this is how I would approach it -

1. Withdraw from the United Nations. THe UN is going to put up roadblocks to any action, and furthermore has been a nuisance to free countries while simultaneously providing a shield of respectability to regimes which do not deserve it.
2. Issue a warning to the Iraqi people, that the next "Fallujah" will be flattened.
3. Should that resolve be tested, flatten the city.
4. Additionally, any Iraqi political leader that does not toe the line in preserving civil peace should be captured and sent to Guantanamo.

Regards, Ivan